487 Ups and Downs (2/2)
Antanas' life force was fiercely pushed out of his body. Losing the inner support, Antanas' tall and strong body became saggy. The warhammer dropped onto the ground, and Antanas' skull snapped into pieces.
The solidified light ball of black, white and grey went out of his eye socket, fell onto the ground, and broke into a few equally-sized pieces.
The pieces still had the almighty power of eternity and supremacy, but it felt that the pieces had lost the soul and will within it. The black, white and grey slowly spread out from the pieces, dyeing the surrounding objects, but now the process was totally meaningless and purposeless.
An illusionary Mage's Hand appeared in the air, trying to pick up the light ball pieces. However, the hand directly went through them, as if the pieces were not in this dimension.
”Hm?” The voice sounded confused.
A lich in a black cloak appeared in the sky. His head had no flesh at all but just a white skull. In each of his two hollow black eye sockets, a fine, needle-like red light spot was flickering.
It was him. Congus, the Demigod-lich. Lucien released a sigh in his mind.
Congus was not in a rush to collect the broken pieces from the mysterious existence in the World of Souls. Instead, Congus turned to look at Lucien. He would never leave the chance to Alterna to recover. Alterna was his only threat on the spot.
”Life Depri…” Congus said two strange words. They were the most primitive magic words.
Congus was not going to underestimate Alterna by any chance. He directly used a legendary spell to eradicate Lucien and his left hand.
However, before Congus could finish the second word, a flash of bright light hacked at him from behind. The light possessed this very positive power that reminded Lucien of all the good characteristics including order, honesty, kindness, and so on.
The magic defense spells automatically triggered dissolved under the light. But Congus had flashily moved to another spot. As a legendary sorcerer, he was constantly prepared for sudden attacks.
The two needle-like red spots turned to look at the attacker. It was Bero, the God of Sun, who supposedly had lost all his power under Life Ritual.
However, now Bero was standing up straight in the air and spoke in a commanding tone.
”This is just a reminder.”
”Who are you?” Asked Congus. He felt the power coming out from Bero rather familiar, but it wasn't Bero's own power, and Congus could not recall who it belonged to.
Bero did not answer the question. Countless white wings spread out behind him. Bero said to Congus in a solemn tone, ”anything that dies must fall into the eternal sleep. This is the order of life. You filthy, evil creature, face this sentence!”
Then a scale, the left side white and right side black, appeared in front of Bero. After several swings, it reached its balance. The grey and white and horrible pale clouds then instantly disappeared, but the polluted land and the dying trees still remained the same.
”The Scale of Justice! You're Rudolf II!”
Congus did not have a clue how Rudolf II came here, but nevertheless he quickly cast the legendary spell on Rudolf II.
”Life Deprivation!”
Congus believed that this was just a projection of Rudolf, so he was positive that even though Rudolf had brought the Scale with him, the projection was still not a match to Congus himself.
Silently, Bero's face aged as if time passed by on him very fast. The wings behind him closed, converging into a streak of light.
”Comply with the order, Congus.”
”The Light of Order!”
The streak of light rapidly expanded, filling in every corner of the world, carrying the power to dissolve anything that was unnatural in the space.
Meanwhile, Congus opened his mouth big and let out an awful howling — Demigod-lich's Howling!
Natasha's eyes lost focus again, and she had also lost the ability to hear or smell. The Shield of Truth in front of her cracked rapidly.
At this time, under the cold and bright moonlight, Lucien rose up into the air across the river. Wearing his long black coat, Lucien lifted his left hand up high, the flame of destruction twining it.
Francis and Camil thought that Lucien and Alterna had used up all of their power.
However, this was not the case. Before taking in the godhood of the Lord of Underworld, Alterna was already able to launch a full round of attack. Now, after absorbing one more godhood, plus the half-month sleep, how could Alterna lose the ability to fight after only one single strike?
Lucien came to the Temple of War on purpose. To get out of the trouble, he was trying to make the legendary archmage who had been watching him all the time and Antanas fight against each other. Before this fight, Lucien had taken Congus' arrival into his consideration, therefore, he did not use Alterna's full power.
Facing Alterna who had been severely injured, and the mysterious existence from the World of Souls who was still able to fight, Congus would definitely deal with the latter first.
Lucien would let them fight first.
Also, since Lucien happened to see Sophia around, and he knew that the Emperor had touched the secret behind the seven ancient demons, Lucien had also expected that Rudolf II would also get involved in this.
The power of silver moon had quickly repaired Lucien's body. When the huge moon rose again, covering the real silver moon in the sky.
Shocked, Congus and Rudolf II saw Lucien bow slightly. And then Lucien dropped his left hand down, and the moonshine suddenly expanded and filled up their vision.
Was it because Lucien was smarter and more sophisticated than them?
No, it was simply because Lucien knew much more information than Antanas. Lucien knew that there was a legendary hiding around and that Rudolf II was able to arrive at any time. Therefore, he could draw up the best plan.
The information gap was Lucien's advantage!
The silver moon tonight was so bright that Congus and Rudolf II would never ever forget this scene.